Is This £1 Thrift Shop Painting By 20th Century Italian Master? | Fake Or Fortune

The team try to prove a painting bought for £1 in a junk shop is the work of Giorgio de Chirico. The painting is a still life depicting fruit in a windblown landscape and belongs to Bob Kay who bought it from a bric-a-brac shop in the nineties. However, scepticism arises from many art experts due to thee sheer volume of fakes in circulation.

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[c.t.murray]

It's a De Chirico, you know it is. Especially when you connected the letters and friendship to Vera Morris and he was sending her paintings. You all do such great work.

[Bethgael]

The number one thing I've learned from this series is this: the "experts" _never_ change their minds. If they didn't have an opinion, the painting and evidence gets to stand on its own. If they have, there is no way. Ego seems to be more important than authenticity, or not.

[tamarrajames]

I DO think there is a problem with these committees who have the final word on authenticity of a given artist’s work. They don’t do the chemical and scientific research that you do, but use their “feelings” to decide.

This painting in particular has so many markers giving it time and place, that they disregard because of the “placement” of the fruits, when we all know there has never been an artist who didn’t have an off day, or who didn’t attempt something different from their usual works.

I think there is much power in the hands of these committees, who are unwilling to admit to an earlier mistake unless forced to by an ironclad provenance. It is a dreadful shame.🖤🇨🇦

[shadowguard]

After all the evidence presented the experts do not seem like experts at all and possibly didn’t change their mind because they didn’t want to overturn the original assessment. They didn’t want to look like fools.

[TheNinnyfee]

I love that artists like Ernst and De Chirico copied themselves and each other to trigger and confuse the egos of pompous and self-important collectors and experts. 😄💗

I love this program, I am always learning so much.

[Ozworldz]

So four of them strangely changed their minds, first thinking it was right, now wrong. Makes you wonder about these decisions.

[SlaterLater]

These art authentication committees/foundations are ridiculous. The way they make their decisions so randomly.

[TheBaritoneCrooner]

Loved Bob’s line: “how vast is a pomegranate?” 😆

[-UVB]

How on earth could that committee possibly deny the scientific results that were overwhelmingly in favour of the painting being an original work !

[ReynaSingh]

This really highlights the arbitrary value assigned to works of art

[bessofhardwick]

Your research results convince me it's a real De Chirico. I think the committee just didn't want to admit they'd been wrong before. Hang onto your picture, Bob. Hopefully, in the future, you'll get a confirmation that it's a genuine work.

[jasmin]

A captivating episode.! For me.. there are always more questions about these "committees" authenticating the works.. than the works themselves.

[toriamansfield]

I think the Italians just didn't want to admit to a mistake and just doubled down on their refusal.

[mtngrl]

My thought on some of these art house experts is that there is more value in declining art work that is not in the current catalog of an artist's work. It's the classic scarcity creates more value for existing acknowledged works.

[exploidur]

As soon as I saw the painting I thought of Chirico. The 'experts' say it is 'in no way' by him. 

Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...

[v.g.r.l.]

This programme always is amazing, but the piece of data on the year when the picture was probably made was truly beyond fantasy. Thanks!

[jackiwannapaint]

I am a painter, DeChirico is one of my favorites, and i have been to the museo, twice, also the caffe greco. His still lifes are amazing, the way he paints grapes they seem more real and alive than the ones being painted. Yes we are looking at the painting on a youtube video but for me it seems to have that quality. Its either legit or the person who painted it had his own gift and a very large gift it was.

[stephenjablonsky]

It is entirely possible that the "experts" were wrong. The art business is a very dangerous place.

[daisyday]

While I can't afford a masterpiece I do appreciate the prints of my favorite paintings. Thank you for the enlightenment on the stories behind the painting. When I travel I always visit Oxfam, British Heart Society, Goodwill and flea markets along with antique stores. I only buy what I love or think my family will like. Sometimes I have a painting that isn't claimed by one of my children and then I am secretly pleased "It's mine!".

[LittleLouieLagazza]

I think the De Chirico people in Italy got caught with their pants down and are bluffing their way out to save face. Egos vaster than pomegranates 😂😂😂😅